1. (通常因为不方便而)将…转移至别处，将…调往别处
If a person or thing is shunted somewhere, they are moved or sent there, usually because someone finds them inconvenient.

2. 使(火车车皮或车厢)转轨
When railway engines shunt wagons or carriages, they push or pull them from one railway line to another.

1. implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber
for draining fluids within the body

2. a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current

Synonym: electrical shuntbypass

3. a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another

e.g. an arteriovenus shunt